Agenda for LOTI #IoTWeek Launch — Monday 2 March
Here’s everything you need to know about Monday’s launch event for LOTI and the GLA’s #IoTWeek.
Venue: Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre.
Date and time: 2 March, 9am-4:30pm
#IoTWeek is five days of activity hosted by LOTI and the GLA, dedicated to helping London boroughs think through how they use smart street infrastructure for the benefit of all Londoners. (Read our recent article about the week’s overall plan and purpose.)
We’ll be tweeting about our progress all week using the hashtag #IoTWeek.
For anyone who can’t attend Monday’s session, simply follow LOTI on Twitter to watch live-streams of the panel sessions, which start at 9:50am
(And if you are joining us, you might find it helpful to bring your laptop or preferred mobile device in case you’d like to join our #IoTWeek Basecamp space to contribute throughout the week.)
Agenda below — thanks in advance to all our panellists and participants!
Monday Agenda
09:00 — Guests arrive
09:30 — Welcome and Introductions — Eddie Copeland, Director of LOTI
09:40 — London’s Aspirations for Smart Tech — Theo Blackwell, Chief Digital Officer for London
09:50 — Panel 1: How can boroughs make informed decisions about which IoT technologies can help deliver their desired outcomes?
- Jemma Hoare — Sharing Cities Community Engagement Officer, Greenwich
- Graham Colclough — Partner, UrbanDNA
- Steve Turner — Digital Cities Lead, Arup
- Phil Saw — Project Director, Infrastructure and Projects Authority
- Nathan Pierce — Head of Smart London Team, GLA (CHAIR)
10:30 —Panel 2: How can we ensure IoT data delivers real insights that benefit the whole of London?
- Trevor Dorling — Director, Digital Greenwich
- Miranda Sharp — Director of Innovation, Ordnance Survey
- Paul Hodgson — Senior Manager for City Data, GLA
- Neil Hoose — Visiting Professor, Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London
- Eddie Copeland, Director of LOTI (CHAIR)
11:10 — Break
11:30 —Panel 3: How can we deploy IoT technology in a way that engenders citizens’ trust?
- Tom Symons — Head of Government Innovation Research — Nesta
- Lauren Sager Weinstein — Chief Data Officer — Transport for London
- Gavin Summerson — City Standards Lead — Connected Places Catapult
- Olivier Thereaux — Head of Technology — ODI
- Eddie Copeland, Director of LOTI (CHAIR)
12:10 — Briefing on Exercise 1
12:15 — Exercise 1: Identifying the key questions to be answered
Four groups led by:
- Strategy: Ben Goward, Nathan Pierce
- Business Case: Steve O’Connor, Ed Parkes
- Data Insights: Paul Hodgson, Genta Hajri
- Public Trust: Pierre Venter, Sandy Tung
13:00 — Lunch Break
14:00 — About the Research Week — Ed Parkes
14:10 — Exercise 2: Crowdsourcing ideas, resources and advice
This is your chance to share your experiences and contribute existing examples, ideas, resources and contacts.
16:00 — Feedback and wrap up: What could we work on this week that would have the greatest impact?
16:30 — Event close
Crowdsourced Questions
Below is the list of questions that you’ve helped us to crowdsource in advance. Many thanks for all your contributions!
Strategy: “How can boroughs use IoT-enabled smart street infrastructure for the benefit of all Londoners?”
- What would a distinctly London approach to IoT look like?
- How can we ensure that solutions are citizen-led, not technology-led?
- What capabilities do boroughs need to use IoT well?
- To what extent do boroughs need common technology to enable IoT-enabled services to operate across borough boundaries?
- What new opportunities, services and approaches does IoT make possible?
- To what degree will boroughs need to be prepared to change their existing street infrastructure and over what time span?
- Where have funding cuts hit the hardest on the street, and can IoT tech play a strategic part in mitigating those cuts?
- Based on what evidence should boroughs design and commission IoT services?
- How can boroughs approach the use of IoT strategically between their own teams (e.g. in care homes, traffic management, building management, etc.)
- What kind of collaboration infrastructure does London need for boroughs to use IoT-enabled smart street infrastructure for the benefit of all Londoners?
Business Case: “How can boroughs make informed decisions about which (if any) IoT technologies can play a role in delivering their desired outcomes? How should this shape their engagement with the market?”
- Based on what criteria should boroughs decide to use IoT?
- How do boroughs choose the most promising use cases?
- Do all IoT deployments need a return on investment or should boroughs focus first on social & environmental impact?
- How can boroughs assess the social / inclusion / equity impact of IoT technologies?
- How can IoT help increase the vibrancy of London’s most iconic streets public spaces and tourist hotspots?
- How can IoT foster growth / regeneration of high streets?
- What role could IoT play in supporting safety and counter-terrorism?
How can IoT help with the management of council properties and social housing? - How can boroughs ensure that the IoT technologies they implement are future-proof and can respond to changing needs?
- How can boroughs avoid being locked in to a certain technology type or provider when purchasing IoT infrastructure?
- Should boroughs own their street infrastructure or is it better to be managed by private companies?
- Are boroughs willing to collaborate with other boroughs to share learning and reduce costs?
- Should the market be providing ‘access to services’ rather than ‘purchase of IoT infrastructure’ to always be accessing the latest innovations and not being stuck with any legacy hardware?
Data Insights: “Given that the data collected by smart street infrastructure often relates to issues that require a pan-London response, how can we ensure comparable data is available from across many boroughs to gain valuable insights for the whole of London?”
- How does London strike the right balance between letting boroughs procure whatever IoT technologies fit their local needs, and ensuring that data and insights on important issues such as air pollution, congestion, etc, are available at a pan-London level?
- How do we decide what data should be shared with whom and on what basis?
- How do we ensure data is collected that provides real value and insights, not just data collection for data collection’s sake?
- Should we first determine what pan-London insights we want or look at what data is available?
- Should boroughs agree on common approaches to data standards, security, data value and citizen ownership?
- What requirements do boroughs need to place on providers of smart street tech to ensure data from different locations can be shared and compared?
- What tools and solutions are available (or need to be developed) to leverage the data being collected across boroughs to gain meaningful insights?
- What capabilities will boroughs need to commission IoT, analyse the data and make decisions? Where will that capability come from?
- Would taking a coordinated approach to IoT tech lead to greater cyber vulnerabilities? How should we respond?
Public Trust: “How can we ensure that IoT data collection in public spaces is done for the benefit of citizens in a way that is transparent, ethical and engenders citizens’ trust and confidence?”
- How can London avoid the public backlashes to public IoT seen in cities like Toronto and Amsterdam?
- How do we meaningfully engage the public in how IoT is used in public spaces?
- Should boroughs prevent companies from deploying technologies based on certain types of business model — e.g. selling data?
- How can boroughs ensure their ethical standards and approaches to privacy are completely embedded in the technologies they commission?
- What are citizens’ greatest concerns and how should we respond to them?
- How do we design-in citizen co-visioning and co-design throughout all our IoT activities?
- What should be done to safeguard citizens’ right to privacy?
- What would a good governance model look like? And how would that include both those responsible and the citizen?
- How might a collaborative approach to ethical issues benefit boroughs?
- How can we demonstrate to the public the benefits of IoT in a way that is tangible and appealing? Is that even possible?
- How do we address common health concerns collectively?
